In case you were wondering whether things had simmered down in this back and forth between MSNBC and FNC….well…they haven’t. Last night Keith Olbermann put Brit Hume on the “Worse, Worser, Worst” list for comments he made.

Tonight’s runner up: Brit Hume of Fox News. Wherever you might be on this immigration debate, can you abide someone characterizing yesterday’s nationwide peaceful protest by immigrants the way he did - a “repellent spectacle”? Hey pal, I’ve seen your newscasts. You’re skating on thin ice when you call something else a repellent spectacle.

But left himself and his attack wide open for criticism by attributing Hume’s comments to the wrong event.

Meanwhile during the same hour over on FNC, Bill O’Reilly was tweaking MSNBC over the rumors that there was going to be a prime time shuffle. Which begs the question, which blogs are O’Reilly and/or his staff reading? Because that rumor got shot down in the afternoon. So why run it?

Also, there is a rumor of another primetime shakeup at MSNBC. In the past seven years that disaster has declined 63 percent in the primetime ratings, while FOX News has increased 86 percent.

Ridiculous? Not to us.

Don’t you feel better now that you’ve gotten your weekly dose of this cable soap opera?

I didn’t stay up for The Situation last night so I just found out about this. Tucker Carlson has dropped the bow tie!!!

If you’ve watched the show before, you may have noticed that I look different. I’m not wearing a bow tie. This is odd for me. I’ve worn a bow tie on television every night for the past six years, and for 15 years off-air before that. Since I was in the 10th grade. I like bow ties. I’ve certainly spent a lot of time defending them.

But from now on, I’m going without. No ties at all.
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MSNBC this morning ran a clip of Chris Mathews appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night where the subject of Tom DeLay came up. Transcript by me follows…

Mathews: I have a new friend…Tom DeLay…

(audience laughter)

Kimmel: Tom DeLay is your new friend…

Mathews: He came on the show last week. I didn’t know he was that close but he showed up and gave me the scoop - he told me he was quitting and I got to break that story.

Kimmel: Yeah that’s a great thing

Mathews: And we like to do that in jounalism. We like to break stories. We got to be there first.

Kimmel: Why did he pick you?

Mathews: I don’t know.

(audience laughter)

Mathews: I…uh..

Kimmel: Phone was busy at Fox News?

(audience laughter)

(End Clip)

Rachel Felder and Deborah Swaney in the New York Daily News use the Merideth Viera story to profile women who put their careers in park to have children. One person was MSNBC’s Alex Witt…

Witt recalls that when she was trying to return to work, she was introduced to an anchor at a major network. “She told me, ‘You’re not going to be able to make it,’” she says. “Statistically, she was absolutely right.” Witt, by the way, is now the bigger star.